Federico Fuentes
As the dust settles from a wave of mobilisations that paralysed a nation, Bolivia finds itself with a president increasingly unable to govern. Once again, the indigenous peoples of Bolivia have shown that real power lies in the
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On March 14, Judge Frank O'Donell declared a mistrial in the prosecution of five peace activists, members of the Trident Plughshares, charged with criminal damage after de-arming a warplane at Shannon Airport in 2003. The Trident plane was bound for
Barry Healy
The generation of anti-racist activists that came of age in the Redfern struggles at the end of the 1960s and early '70s have lost one of their stalwarts with the passing of Bob Bellear on March 16. Bellear was a true battler, one who
Marce Cameron
The February 19 Good Weekend, the magazine supplement of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, ran a cover story titled "Children of the Revolution" with a nice picture of smiling Cuban kids. "[Cuba's President] Fidel
Susan Price& Sue Bolton
Over the past couple of weeks the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has been holding delegates' meetings all over the country. The largest, in Melbourne, was attended by 700 delegates and officials. The second
On March 14, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released the reports of its 66th session, including the judgement that New Zealand's Foreshore and Seabed Act was discriminatory because it extinguished native title over the
BRISBANE — On March 12, 75 people crowded into the Terminus Hotel in South Brisbane to discuss the impact of the federal Coalition government's industrial relations agenda.
Organised by the newly formed Brisbane Labour History Association, the
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